Intel Core i3-8130U vs Intel Core i7-10510U

Core i3-8130U vs Core i7-10510U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10510U is faster than the Core i3-8130U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8130U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10510U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-8130U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8130U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-8130U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10510U. Despite this, the Core i7-10510U has a significantly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-10510U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8130U. The Core i7-10510U also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-8130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.